Certain Quotes

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their back stories.

At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.

Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.

And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things.

I think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

We, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it's supposed to be going.

There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks.

To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge.

[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.

If you can't prove it's not true then a certain number of people will glom on and say it is true.

I'm constantly changing and evolving so I don't abide by just one certain style.

There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in certain ecstasy, for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.

I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is